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Re:Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @09:51PM (#16279357)
Yes, but if you can buy it for the same price it would cost to build, why bother building? Time has its own costs too.
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Re:Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine by jstanley on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:10AM (#16279914)
Because you don't want it to phone home on every boot.
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Re:Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:22AM (#16281639)
I can't thing of any (realistic) reason for a P&P machine to be connected to the internet.
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Re:Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine by jstanley on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:07AM (#16281903)
Exactly.

OP said:

> Interesting that for such an inexpensive but specialized hardware device it still has a "phone home on boot" feature.

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